Citations:dayshade
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English citations of dayshade
a kind of hat or umbrella[edit]
- 188, Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild, The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopaedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needleworks, page 506:
- Amongst the ancient Greeks, the Dayshade, or Skiadeion was employed at a certain Festival (the Panathenia) by the Athenian maidens, held over them by the daughters of the aliens. In later times, they have been in use all over Europe, and ...
a kind of flower / plant[edit]
- 1975, Emmett Williams, Selected Shorter Poems, 1950-1970
- bella donna my fair lady of the night looks like hell in the light of day, burning, burning until she sets the cycle right again, turning, turning
- deadly nightshade into lively dayshade. universal truths shouldn't be all that hard to ...
- 1981, Lois G. Gordon, Donald Barthelme, Boston : Twayne Publishers
- She studies the infinite variety of possibilities in her "floor-to-ceiling Early American spice racks with their neatly labeled jars of various sorts of bane including dayshade, scumlock, hyoscine, azote, hurtwort, and milkleg" (158). But Snow ...